What is Cribl used for?

Cribl is a telemetry pipeline platform that routes, reduces, enriches and stores logs, metrics and traces between data sources and analytics tools. It is a good fit for cutting SIEM and logging costs, migrating between SIEM vendors, and avoiding lock-in to one analytics tool.

Yes. Cribl has a free plan. A Free tier covers up to 1TB per day. Standard and Enterprise are consumption-based, paid with Cribl Credits at $1 per credit, and the page lists no per-plan prices.

Is Cribl open source?

No. Cribl is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Cribl include Vector, Telegraf and OpenTelemetry Collector.

Can I self-host Cribl?

Yes. Although Cribl is closed source, it can be self-hosted on your own servers, and the vendor also offers a hosted version.

What are some alternatives to Cribl?

Cribl competes with Splunk and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Cribl alternatives.

Cribl: features, pricing and alternatives

About Cribl

Cribl is a commercial data management platform for IT and security telemetry. It sits between the systems that produce logs, metrics and traces and the tools that analyze them, giving teams control over where data goes, what is kept and how much each destination costs.

The product family includes Cribl Stream for processing data in motion, Cribl Edge for collecting at the source, Cribl Lake for storage, Cribl Search and Insights for querying and visibility, Detect and Cribl AI features, and apps and packs. Typical operations are collect, route, enrich, redact, reduce, transform, store and replay. Use cases the vendor highlights include SIEM migration, cost control, avoiding vendor lock-in, SOC modernization, cloud migration, compliance and AI observability.

Cribl is proprietary. It is offered as a hosted cloud service named Cribl.Cloud and, as downloadable software, for customers who run it themselves. Pricing is published on the vendor's site, along with documentation, training and a community on Slack.

Key features

Routing of logs and metrics to many destinations
Data reduction and enrichment in the pipeline
Redaction of sensitive fields
Replay of stored data to new tools
Edge collection at the data source
Searchable data lake storage
Packs and integrations with SIEM and analytics tools

Good fit for

→Cutting SIEM and logging costs
→Migrating between SIEM vendors
→Avoiding lock-in to one analytics tool

Tags: telemetry-pipeline; log-management; observability; siem; data-routing; security; cost-control

Cribl: questions and answers

What is Cribl used for?: Cribl is a telemetry pipeline platform that routes, reduces, enriches and stores logs, metrics and traces between data sources and analytics tools. It is a good fit for cutting SIEM and logging costs, migrating between SIEM vendors, and avoiding lock-in to one analytics tool.
Is Cribl free?: Yes. Cribl has a free plan. A Free tier covers up to 1TB per day. Standard and Enterprise are consumption-based, paid with Cribl Credits at $1 per credit, and the page lists no per-plan prices.
Is Cribl open source?: No. Cribl is proprietary (closed-source) software. Open-source alternatives to Cribl include Vector, Telegraf and OpenTelemetry Collector.
Can I self-host Cribl?: Yes. Although Cribl is closed source, it can be self-hosted on your own servers, and the vendor also offers a hosted version.
What are some alternatives to Cribl?: Cribl competes with Splunk and Datadog. For open-source options, see Enlisted's ranked list of open-source Cribl alternatives.